Madeleine doing well after her G Tube surgery

[Guest guest]

A quick note just to say thanks for everyone's good wishes for Mads' operation

last Thursday. She is doing very well, and reacted much better after the

surgery than for her cleft palate repair. She was even smiling when we picked

her up from theatre!

We have to be careful how to pick her up and clean the wound, but she is smiling

as usual and the G tube is pretty easy to flush and clean. We won't start her

continuous feeds until Wednesday when the pump arrives, when she will have

300mls of Infatrini a night at 30mls per hour. However the dietician wants to

move her to Nutrini with fibre within a month - as she is getting a bit old for

Infatrini - I'm hoping the fibre will help.

I am amazed how quickly she recovered - and Kamran and I agree (so far) it was

definitely the right decision for Mads.

I'll let you know how the feeds work out,

Best wishes

Gillian

[Guest guest]

Wow! Looks like it was g-tube week for our kids. I'm glad that

Madeleine is doing so well. You must be relieved. Good luck with

starting the pump feeds on Wednesday. What a relief to have the

surgery over with!

Jodi Z

[Guest guest]

Gillian - I am SO hapy to hear that Madeleine's surgery went well.

Thank you for keeping us posted.

- H

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> A quick note just to say thanks for everyone's good wishes for

Mads' operation last Thursday. She is doing very well, and reacted

much better after the surgery than for her cleft palate repair. She

was even smiling when we picked her up from theatre!

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> We have to be careful how to pick her up and clean the wound, but

she is smiling as usual and the G tube is pretty easy to flush and

clean. We won't start her continuous feeds until Wednesday when the

pump arrives, when she will have 300mls of Infatrini a night at

30mls per hour. However the dietician wants to move her to Nutrini

with fibre within a month - as she is getting a bit old for

Infatrini - I'm hoping the fibre will help.

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> I am amazed how quickly she recovered - and Kamran and I agree (so

far) it was definitely the right decision for Mads.

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> I'll let you know how the feeds work out,

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> Best wishes

> Gillian

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